Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.

If such external influences are intrinsic to religion, then logic and scientific thought dictate that there must be a mechanism by which this influence is transmitted. A religious or spiritual belief that involves an invisible undetectable force that nonetheless influences human actions and behavior or that of the world itself produces a situation in which a believer has no choice but to have faith and abandon logic--or simply not care.

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.

Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive.

Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.